Chapter 167 Infiltrating The Goblin Village

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(A few hours ago…)

Ninhursag had infiltered the Goblin Camp as a female goblin and had been able to learn a couple of things there without being detected by others for a bit.

She had gotten there and realized some things, such as that these Goblins had only gotten here in the last month, and that they had come here from a completely different area.

The Demon Continent.

But how?

How did they came from the Demon Continent in such a large quantity? It didn't made sense, the oceans connecting both continents of Gallatea, and the Demon Continent were very vast, such big armies would take astronomical amounts of funds to be able to cross the ocean.

The water tribe of demons could have helped, but they cannot go on land for long, and since Leviathan's death, they stopped helping the heads of the Demon Continent, which was now mostly governed, at least half of it, by humans that had come there to conquer those fertile lands.

It was unrealistic for demons to make such a big move out of nowhere now that they had decrease in numbers and power, they couldn't realistically afford the movement, even if many Demon Kingdoms stayed strong as they had big armies that didn't let the invading humans go as they pleased, it was a completely different thing to move to another continent.

But how did these goblins reach here otherwise? A tribe that has always lived here might be a possibility, but Ninhursag herself learned they all came from the Demon Continent one month ago, making a camp incredibly quickly and beginning to multiply fast.

Goblins were social with their own kin, but would act barbarically against anyone else unless they had been somewhat tamed or controlled by a greater figure within their tribe, Goblin Champions, Goblin Kings or Queens, or the strongest goblin, a Goblin Emperor or Empress…

Such figures would have incredible power and the ability to control Goblins with ease, they could command them and order them as they wanted, and they were the reason why goblins could make alliances with others despite their barbaric demeanors.

And Ninhursag could feel the powerful presence of something coming from the largest tent in the camp, a dark energy coming from it… it was dangerous.

Not at the level of a Goblin Emperor, or a worst case, one of legends, a Goblin God, but it was something below Goblin Emperor but just as terrifying, and more than capable of creating disaster whenever it went.

There was a Goblin King there, being served by multiple female goblins and Goblin Champions as guards.

There was also an abnormal amount of Goblin Champions, which also made Ninhursag very surprised, such variants were very hard to emerge sometimes, unless a Goblin King had already begun to mate with multiple females.

Due to their very short lifespans of often no more than 10 years, goblins grew incredibly quickly, in a few months they were able to move, hunt, and communicate with one another, and after half a year, they can begin mating.

Due to this they were very capable of reproducing in enormous quantities and flood entire places, becoming a large plague that humans had to deal here in the past, and even more in the Demon Continent itself.

Unless they were controlled by a Goblin King or something higher, they would constantly spread chaos endlessly, but even if a Goblin king controlled them, there was nothing that wouldn't guarantee that it would simply use the power of his troops to attempt to dominate other lands, Kingdoms, and Nations.

Ninhursag knew Goblins and all these Barbarian races very well as she had once fought many of them and exterminated another handful of them on her own, since she was a child that she remembers them all quite well and holds a strong resentment against these races due to what they had done to her people in the past, when the Demon King was alive, and the war was growing more and more intense.

Due to this, she had a strong murdering intent, if she could take down the King's head now, she could quite possibly send the goblins into rage and end up making them all mess up their formation and organization, making them easy to kill even by wild beasts.

She even had thought about using the Goblin King's bones on her own, abusing her shapeshifting powers as a Skin-Changer and turning into a Goblin Queen herself, to order the Goblins and more, but she didn't knew if she would be able to completely inherit the monster's powers that way.

And as she decided to move away from the Goblin Camp and come back later to deal with them after she were to inform the Heroes in the Amazon Village, she suddenly was stopped by a group of Goblin Males.

In their culture, females that had not been taken by males can be freely be courted by males until they finally decide a mate, it is very important for them to mate to keep their population up, so these things were a norm, and Ninhursag was a female goblin…

So she ended being surrounded by many goblins that felt her "scent" which was seemingly pure and not without the mixed scent of another male that had already bedded her. Indeed, she was actually a virgin despite how old she was.

"Gryaguuak!"

"Graku! Gra!"

"Grakyaka!"

The Goblins began to speak weirdly to her as they offered her things, some brought hunted animals, other shiny jewels from monsters magic crystals, others brought aromatic herbs and medicinal herbs, and a few brought cooked food, fruits, and seeds.

Males fought for females by bringing them offerings, often in the form of food, the most valued thing after all. A female had to be provided with a lot of food by a male so she could keep her energies high as she gave birth to many children, so choosing a male capable of providing was necessary.

However, Ninhursag couldn't help but constantly feel more and more disgusted, to the point she couldn't keep the disguise any longer…

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